Zenwalk 6 is the latest release of Zenwalk Linux. The changes are major enough that most people will find it worth making the upgrade (note Xfce 4.6). Zenwalk has come a long way with Zenwalk 6, from its beginnings with creator Jean-Philippe Guillemin, also known as Hyperion.
 
Zenwalk is a fast distribution and has low system requirements so you can use it on older, slower computers with no problem. Zenwalk 6 is no exception to this rule. The new Zenwalk 6 looks a lot like 5.2 so it will feel familiar.

Mandriva 2009.1 is overall an excellent transition from Windows to Linux, and comes with many great features for the tech-savvy user who wants an improved, sleek desktop look and feel as well as an abundance of programs to use. Before its merger with Conectiva, Mandrake Linux was concerned with making the Linux desktop more compatible for the end user, easier to understand and operate, as well as all-around better looking. With those goals in mind, Mandriva Linux as it is known today has accomplished those goals of popularizing the Linux desktop all while creating an awesome user-interface that gives the utmost control to the computer user.

Linux Mint's purpose was always to be a very user-friendly, simple, and up to date Linux and GNU desktop distribution. Besides being based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope (and early on, really just a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs, and Linux 2.6.28, it also incorporated the highly popular open source technology of Gnome 2.26, and Xorg 7.4.

NetBSD 4 is finally out, boasting a long list of feature and speed improvements in the open source operating system. The NetBSD 4.0 comes nearly two years after NetBSD 3.0 was released. As with earlier versions, NetBSD 4 continues to competitively position its BSD variant against its BSD, Linux and Unix peers.

"It's hard to point out a single aspect -- there have been so many improvements," NetBSD developer Geert Hendrickx told InternetNews.com.

Among the improvements in NetBSD 4 is a switch to the latest GCC compiler which is faster and more efficient than its predecessors.

From a user point of view Hendrickx noted that NetBSD 4 now supports the Xen3 open source virtualization hypervisor. He also noted that there is a lot more support for recent consumer hardware including ACPI (define) improvements, a native driver for SATA disks and Bluetooth support.

NetBSD is a derivative of the UC Berkeley's 386BSD Unix with the first NetBSD release appearing back in April of 1993. It competes in the BSD variant space with FreeBSD and OpenBSD and is also considered to be a competitive alternative to Linux as well.

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